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Sh*t Happens Vicki

When only the very worst of society get incarcerated it’s inevitable that corrections facilities will be unpleasant places.

That hasn’t stopped the Liberal’s Vicki Dunne from trying to reprise Colonel Hanson on the subject of violence at the Bimberi youth detention centre.

The Minister responsible for youth justice, Joy Burch, must explain why there have been 14 assaults and six security breaches, and the extent of these incidents, at Bimberi Youth Detention Centre since it began operations 18 months ago, Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services, Vicki Dunne, said today.

“Minister Burch also must explain why a supposedly state-of-the-art centre still leaves staff exposed to personal injury and why security is not as effective as it should be,” Mrs Dunne said.

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“These incidents and the OHS risks they pose to both staff and residents would suggest there are significant problems in the facility, which the government needs to address before something really serious or even tragic happens.

“It simply is not good enough to explain things away as being ‘not uncommon in a youth detention environment’, especially when the people of Canberra paid $44 million for the construction of the facility and well over $1400 per detainee every day.

Less then 1 assault a month is huge especially considering the low number of staff that are on during any given time. And to say that some of them are only being spat on and that isn’t that serious, consider where they may be being spat on, in the face by kids who may have who knows what disease. I’d rather take a punch then take a spit. Gross

So the little darlings are upset, are they? What’s the matter? The water in the swimming pool is a bit too cold? The Internet speed a bit too slow? I’m sick of this pampering of little thugs. They should be in an adult jail, not a holiday camp.

You didn’t hear on the news tonight that they all had their family visits cancelled because of being short-staffed? It’s hardly a holiday camp. But there’s certainly nothing wrong with providing the ‘little thugs’ with education and training opportunities, to give them a hope for the future.

So the little darlings are upset, are they? What’s the matter? The water in the swimming pool is a bit too cold? The Internet speed a bit too slow? I’m sick of this pampering of little thugs. They should be in an adult jail, not a holiday camp.

What I read into her statistics, is that in a corrections facility (where troubled young people get put for criminal acts such as assault and B&E) there has been less than 1 assault per month, and on average 4 security breaches per year.

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